Only 2 more days of work left until it’s home for Christmas 😍🎄 After Friday, my everyday set-up will pretty much look like this but with Christmas films, pyjamas on and probably a glass of wine rather than tea 🌚🍷 #ChezSartorialScot#MyWhiteCo

Dear Favourite Coffee Shop ☝️, this week I miss you. General Christmas shenanigans and a break in the routine to help with a PTA thing yesterday has made me feel out of synch (or out of time 😳?). But I actually enjoyed the day out at school, it was fun. We are always being told we should say no ✋ to more things, but I’m wondering whether 2019 should be the year when I say yes 👍 more often? To getting out, going to events, meeting people. I can be a bit of a solitary worker and anti-social old bird at times, perhaps I should force a different approach. Is next year a yes year or noooooo year for you?
#mycoffeeshopisbetterthanyours
@picnic.foods

I’ve always been slightly obsessed with hair. I love the fact that they come in all colors and texture, straight, curly, wave-y, there is so much to do with them. You can be super creative with a hair cut or hairstyle or hair color and it can make a difference in how confident you feel. How fast my hair got greasy always made me feel insecure. I always had to wash my hair every other day and even on the second day I had to put them in a ponytail. It annoyed me so much to see some people only washing their hair once or twice a week and I just couldn’t do that without looking like a grease ball. Over the past few months I’ve found ways to help with that and one specific change was massive. I’ve dedicated a whole blogpost on how I got my hair to get less greasy and the post in now up on gabriellesnow.com !(link in my bio)

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I like these photos because you’ll be able to see the massive difference when we decorate to our taste.
This isn’t from this morning, we’re rushing around munching breakfast at the moment.
I have been posting a lot of vegan recipes on my stories, well, I’m going to stop annoying you all with them now 😂 if you want to still see though, you can follow my new insta @veganfoodfamily where we’ll share what we enjoy and dislike.

Packing to head up north today and wondering how many jumpers is too many? I'm a professional at packing light, nothing worse than a suitcase on a train! Do wish I could ditch boring stuff like makeup and hair brush for more jumpers though #knitwearforlife

Now my OOOO [Ohros Out of Office] is on, it’s time to fire up Figgy, wrap some presents and drink some hot grapes 🎉
💐These BEAUT flowers are by the wonderful @myladygarden - she’s doing a workshop in Jan. it’s gonna be so fun. Who’s coming with me?💐

T O P N I N E 9️⃣ So here it is - my top nine of 2018 ... and a little interlude to my Thailand pictures (which I’m a few days behind on given we come home tonight) • I didn’t realise how little effort I’d put into this year until I started to reflect and as disappointed as I am to admit it, it has given me a big ok’ kick up the ass to improve next year • Blogging and photography is something I genuinely love and well life’s too short to not concentrate on the things you love • So although 2018 hasn’t seen the best from me, it’s taught me a lot and I think the best is yet to come!
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If you had to sum up 2018 in three emojis why would they be? Me? 😩 🏠 🤕 #findingthejoyineveryday#documentyourdays#cornersofmyworld

No sooner had I packed up the last snips from the last workshop and stashed away the ribbons, I was struck down with a cold. I’m never ill, but people always say that, don’t they? The remedies advertised on the side of bus shelters have made absolutely no difference at all so I am turning to honey and lemon, and endless hot ribena. Anyway, how are you? Ready for the weekend? Me too.

We walked around Christmas in the Park and talked about Christmas. Will it snow then? she asked. No, dear, we would have to do some travelling to get on the snow, I answered. We continued walking. Both kept quiet. It felt like we both knew that the other one misses the snow and proper winter as badly as you.
Could we go skating? she asked after getting off from the merry-go around. I promised that to happen in the near future.

"Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away."
-Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers-
Exactly, Charles, I couldn't have put it any better. Along the merry, bright and not always equally sober gatherings, there is nostalgia spying behind the corner. She waits until we suddenly come to understand she has taken something from us. And while we will celebrate tomorrow and light candles to pretend the dark is nowhere near, while we spread intentions and scheme against our own stubbornness, one little voice might dare to utter a much dreaded question: How was your year? Soon she will be gone, never to return. This year with a new house, new choices, first steps from one daughter and first ballet shoes from another, many firsts and probably too few lasts, ... this splendid year is soon to end. She will host precious celebrations and gatherings before she will be gone again, making room for one of her many sisters (I admittedly hope it will not be her twin). She has been perfectly imperfect, don't you think? Wishing you a marvelous day! x

Today I began my Christmas baking...finally. This shortbread recipe is devine. Honestly, it’s just so, so good. It’s a Jamie Oliver one and it reminds me so much of my Grandma’s shortbread. I’ve shared the recipe and some more photos over on the blog if you’d like to make it. Let me know if you do make it. Xxx